Recovering the Sacred The Power of Naming and Claiming

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Description: When she invites us to "recover the sacred," well-known Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred-and accessMore...

When she invites us to "recover the sacred," well-known Native American organizer Winona LaDuke is requesting far more than the rescue of ancient bones and beaded headbands from museums. For LaDuke, only the power to define what is sacred-and access it-will enable Native American communities to remember who they are and fashion their future. Using a wealth of Native American research and hundreds of interviews with indigenous scholars and activists, LaDuke examines the connections between sacred objects and the sacred bodies of her people-past, present and future-focusing more closely on the conditions under which traditional beliefs can best be practiced. Describing the plentiful gaps between mainstream and indigenous thinking, she probes the paradoxes that abound for the native people of the Americas. How, for instance, can the indigenous imperative to honor the Great Salt Mother be carried out when mining threatens not only access to Nevada's Great Salt Lake but the health of the lake water itself? While Congress has belatedly moved to protect most Native American religious expression, it has failed to protect the places and natural resources integral to the ceremonies. Federal laws have achieved neither repatriation of Native remains nor protection of sacred sites, and may have even less power to confront the more insidious aspects of cultural theft, such as the parading of costumed mascots. But what of political marginalization? How can the government fund gene mapping while governmental neglect causes extreme poverty, thus blocking access to basic healthcare for most tribal members? Calling as ever on her lyrical sensibility and caustic wit, moving from the popular to thepolitic, from the sacred to the profane, LaDuke uses these essays not just to indict the current situation, but to point out a way forward for Native Americans and their allies.

Acknowledgements

Dedication

What is Sacred?

Sacred Lands and Sacred Places

God, Squirrels, and the Universe: The Mt. Graham International Observatory and the University of Arizona

The Apache and the Wars

Raising Arizona

In Search of the Authentic Apaches

Salt, Water, Blood, and Coal: Mining in the Southwest

"I am as much of the clouds as they are of me."

Asabakeshiinh, the Spider

The Mormons, the Lawyers, and the Coal

Sucking the Mother Dry

The Salt Mother Still Rests

Klamath Land and Life

The Stronghold

Unhealed Wounds of Federal Policy

Termination: The Trees and the Land

Edison Chiloquin and Tribal Restoration

A River Runs through It

Valuable Stuff

Ancestors, Images, and Our Lives

Imperial Anthropology: The Ethics of Collecting

"I am a man" Ishi's Descendants

The Ethics of Collecting

Our Relatives are Poisoned

Spoils of War

Quilled Cradleboard Covers: Cultural Patrimony, and Wounded Knee

Cankpe Opi: Wounded Knee

Cante Ognaka: The Heart of Everything That Is

The Road to Wounded Knee

The Killing Fields

The Aftermath and the Medals of Honor

The Collection

The Spirits Still Linger

NAGPRA: The Homecoming Law

Healing and Reconciliation

Vampires in the New World: Blood, Academia, and Human Genetics

Captain Hook and the Biopirates

Masks in the New Millennium

The Native in the Game

The Fighting Sioux

Ralph the Nazi

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

Defense of Spirit

Seeds and Medicine

Three Sisters: Recovery of Traditional Agriculture at Cayuga, Mohawk, and Oneida Communities

Cayugas Remember

Monocultures of the Mind and of the Land

Peacemaking among Neighbors

Kanatiohareke: The Mohawk's Clean Pot

The Oneida's Tsyunhehkwa: "It Provides Life for Us"

Wild Rice: Maps, Genes, and Patents

Manoominike: Making Wild Rice

The Price of Rice

Indian Harvest or Dutch Harvest?

Gene Hunters and the Map of the Wild Rice Genome

Patents and Biopiracy

Academic Freedom and Ethics

Pollen Drift and Those Ducks

Intellectual Property

Water Levels and Bad Development Projects

Where the Food Grows on the Water: Rice Lake and the Crandon Mine

Tribal Laws and Cultural Property Rights

Food as Medicine: The Recovery of Traditional Foods to Heal the People

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